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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
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Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.
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I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.
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and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
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the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
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Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
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we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
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